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OpenAI

The AI lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT models — a major new surface where people discover brands and answers.

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Overview

OpenAI is the AI research company that built the GPT family of models and ChatGPT, the assistant that pushed conversational AI into mainstream use. Its models are available directly through ChatGPT and via an API that powers a large share of the AI features in other products.

For marketers, ChatGPT has become a genuine discovery channel. Its web-browsing and search features cite sources, so the way your content and entity presence are structured now affects whether an AI recommends you — a discipline usually called GEO or AI search visibility.

What they do

OpenAI develops large language and multimodal models, ships them through ChatGPT and its API, and provides the crawlers that gather and reference web content. Its models also underpin many third-party assistants and agents through the API.

  • ChatGPT: consumer and business AI assistant with web search
  • GPT models via API: the engine behind countless AI features
  • GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot: crawlers that index and cite the web
  • A commercial partnership with Microsoft on models and compute

Why they matter for your site

When ChatGPT answers a question, it may cite or paraphrase specific pages. Whether yours is chosen depends on clear, well-structured, trustworthy content and whether you allow OpenAI's crawlers to access it. Blocking those crawlers in robots.txt keeps you out of that answer set entirely.

How REO Rank works with their platform

We audit robots.txt and crawler access for GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot, structure content into clearly answerable passages, and strengthen entity signals so ChatGPT is more likely to surface and cite you. We also build products on OpenAI's API where an AI agent or assistant is the right tool for a client.

Common questions

OpenAI — questions

Straight answers on how this fits your marketing and build.

There is no ad slot to buy. You earn mentions by publishing clear, accurate, well-structured content, building a strong entity presence across the web, and allowing OpenAI's crawlers to access your site. This is the core of GEO or AI search visibility work.

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